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Geraldine Swain

Embrace

Sweet and fathomless seaof feelingembraces you as youcome into the depths ofsilence.Turn and see the partsof yourselfrecognised in another face.

Watch as your fingers beckonyou forward with eyesthat turn and burnwith fire.Speech that crackles and spitsas the belly burns andkindles flames of lovethat light up the facesof our children.

Those entities of lightthat teach us anew each dayhow we speak and learnfrom themas they grow in greater knowledgewords that speak our tuneonly distilled by purer thought.

Hopes come to us as werenew ourselves in them,grasping our better selvesas we begin to see therenewal of themes gone byreturned with greater hopefulfilling our dreamsthat die in grey ashes -pieces of dustthat float in the mind’seye of failure

gone by, yet with us stillin our embrace of eachday as it unfolds,beating its torn wings againstwindows of painshutting out our understandingof future loss;shedding our skin againand saving ourselves fromfear of a futureunknown,rough-hewn against a tideof eventualities that maynever be.

Begin to see the turning wheelas she comes full circleupon your destiny likethe embrace of love thatbears us in the darkened placesand leaves us still bornin light.